One of the things I learned about LDS today from reading reddit threads on this was how much land the church owns not just in the US ( I believe they're the largest land owners in the US) but also abroad.
It's basically a real estate company operating tax free.
One article on their land ownership I found that details some of it. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jan/30/from-book-to-...